(09/28/12) The Clerk Craft will be the primary craft for the operator position on the new Advanced Facer Canceller System (AFCS), the Postal Service has announced. In a letter dated Sept. 28, 2012, [PDF] the Postal Service wrote, “After reviewing the input from the APWU and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union … the Postal […]
(09/28/12) The APWU and USPS have reached an important agreement that will strengthen seniority for Clerk Craft employees when workers are excessed from an installation, Clerk Craft Director Rob Strunk has announced. The Sept. 25 agreement [PDF] stipulates that Clerk Craft employees will be excessed from losing installations by juniority, without regard to their pay […]
(09/28/12) The APWU and the Postal Service have reached an agreement that clarifies management’s obligation to create desirable schedules and work hours for Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) assignments and other positions in APWU-represented crafts, President Cliff Guffey has announced. The Sept. 28 settlement was prompted by APWU protests that career employees occupying NTFT assignments of less […]
(09/27/12) The APWU and Postal Service have signed an agreement that will strengthen seniority and help protect work in APWU-represented crafts for employees in those crafts, APWU President Cliff Guffey has announced. The settlement limits temporary assignments, reassignments or re-employment of injured employees to “residual vacancies” or “uniquely created assignments consisting of duties that would […]
Former U.S. Postal Service Executive Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Government Funds – Defendant Falsely Claimed over $17,000 in Travel Expenses That He Did Not Incur – WASHINGTON – David Kosturko, a former executive of the U.S. Postal Service, pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from his embezzlement of more than $17,000 from the […]
Postal Service Statement on Sept 30 Retiree Health Benefits Prefunding Payment September 26, 2012 For the second time in two months, the U.S. Postal Service will not make a mandated payment to prefund retiree health benefits. Absent legislative action, the Postal Service is unable to make a scheduled $5.6 billion payment to the U.S. Treasury […]
OSHA cites Tucson, Ariz., postal facility for exposing workers to potential injuries from a powered industrial truck $70,000 penalty proposed TUCSON, Ariz. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a U.S. Postal Service processing and distribution center in Tucson for one willful safety violation for the improper operation of […]
Criminal Enforcement Actions – Postal Union Officials On July 16, 2012, in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, Lanny F. Pauley, former Secretary-Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 1412 (located in Garden City, Kans.), was sentenced to two years of probation and was ordered to pay $14,898.51 in […]
Congressional lawmakers are close to turning off the lights and heading home for the final pre-election campaign push. They have nearly checked-off their final “must-do” item before the November elections — keeping the government funded through a stopgap continuing resolution or “CR” as it’s known to Hill hands. The Senate is nearing passage of the […]
Maintenance Craft officers have settled a grievance on the pay for employees who are delayed while traveling, Maintenance Division Director Steve Raymer has announced. In accordance with Article 36.2.C of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, “All travel for job-related training will be considered compensable work hours.” The dispute in Case #Q00C-4Q-C 04025449 arose due to a […]